(Unfortuantly) Hyperdimension Neptunia will return in August

Hyperdimension Neptunia , a hardcore JRPG set in the world anthropomorphised video game consoles, is set to return in Japan this August with the aptly named sequel Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2. It follows a similar setting to the original with Arforie, the physical manifestation of video game piracy, threatening the stability of the world of Gameindustri (oh, see what they did there?).

The previous game had you taking the role of Neptunia, the “Console Patron Unit” of SEGA’s unreleased Neptune console, alongside those of Noire the PS3, Blanc the Wii and Vert the Xbox 360. However in MK2 you’ll be playing as their smaller “sisters” who instead represent the the handheld consoles. They are Nepgear the Purple Sister (a theoretical portable version of the SEGA Neptune) Uni the Black Sister (PSP) and Rom/Ram the white sisters (likely the DS and the 3DS). Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu at one point reported that MK2 was going to be sold under the name NGP, so it would be fair enough to suspect Sony’s PSP successor to factor into the story at some point.

Apparently each of the sisters will look significantly younger than their elder siblings from the first game, which is either just an easy way of representing the size difference between handhelds and consoles or part of fulfilling some creepy anime fetish. Not sure I want to know which. Either way, the concept sounds cool right? Well a lot of people said the same thing about the first game, and I’m not going to lie to you, that thing sucked hard. Actually no, that’s an understatement.

It was a truly god awful game for such a large number of reasons that I could easily do an entire article on the subject. In fact at one point I nearly did write a review, but after contemplating suicide after only two play session with the title I decided it was in my best interest to leave it well alone. Hopefully Mk2 will make better use of the unique setting, honestly it couldn’t do much worse than its predecessor.